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Dialogue in fiction
Dialogue is a conversation between two people. Jill: How are you Jack? Jack: I'm good, Jill and you? Jill: Not good Jack. Not good at all. Dialogue in fiction should be *indirect.* Dialogue often has to do two or three things at once. - It may have to reveal facts. (This is …
The 32 People You Meet In Heaven, Hell and Everywhere Else
Consider the The Big Five Personality Traits, i.e. - Openness to experience (inventive/curious vs. consistent/cautious) - Conscientiousness (efficient/organized vs. easy-going/careless) - Extraversion (outgoing/energetic vs. solitary/reserved) - Agreeableness (friendly/compassion…
The Action Hero Theory
There are two kinds of male action heroes -- the tough guy and the pretty boy. The key to the tough guy is not what he does to other people but what other people do to him. In particular: he can take a punch. The defining feature of action hero stories is that the hero *does* …
The enchanted loom
Every thread of history reveals another layer of the tapestry of our existence The great topmost sheet of the mass, that where hardly a light had twinkled or moved, becomes now a sparkling field of rhythmic flashing points with trains of traveling sparks hurrying hither and thit…